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Victor Deng the student intern standing in front of the Avro Arrow and the CF-18
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Blog
Aviation

Project Log #1: Getting Started

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Feb 17, 2020
Working in an environment that’s full of airplanes has been my dream since childhood. So, when I learned that a summer internship at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum was a possibility, I jumped at the chance.
Sisters Maria Cleofas and Maria Innocenza of the Franciscan Sisters of St. Aloysius Gonzaga aboard an AVIA / Lombardi FL.3 light / private airplane during their flight training, Turin, Italy. Anon., “Le ciel leur appartient.” Le Soleil / Perspectives, 20 February 1960, 12.
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Aviation

Sister Bertrille was not the first flying nun, or, Let’s talk about Sisters Maria Cleofas and Maria Innocenza – and about Sister Mary Aquinas too

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Feb 17, 2020
Good morning, my reading friend of the Milky Way. Yours truly dares to hope that the weather, outside, does not affect your little neurons too much. I would like to offer you this week a subject of a scale that could not be more reasonable, inspired by a very brief article found in the 20 February 1960 issue of the weekly magazine Perspectives inserted in the same day issue of the daily Le Soleil of Québec, Québec – and of La Tribune of Sherbrooke, Québec, my homecity, and… You are quite right,
A surgeon stands watch over a patient being operated on by a robot. Holograms glow in the background
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Engineering & Technology

Looking into the future of medicine

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Feb 14, 2020
As we usher in a new decade, the medical industry is innovating at an incredible pace — producing technologies that will impact individuals and Canadian society as a whole.
A young girl stands in front of a microphone, looking at a large screen with a blue avatar of a woman's face.
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Engineering & Technology

Museum visitors help to grow an artificial intelligence prototype

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Feb 12, 2020
There’s a new digital being at the Canada Science and Technology Museum — and she’s hungry for conversation.
A scan of the damaged cover of a catalogue. On the page behind, you can see handwriting in pencil showing through.
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Agriculture

Uncovering the age-old angst of love

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Feb 11, 2020
Romantic song lyrics are not exactly what you’d expect to find in the pages of an old, agricultural catalogue. But as Ingenium staff members have learned, artifacts can be full of surprises.
The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, ca 2007. Wikipedia.
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Aviation

So far away from home: The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Part 2

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Feb 10, 2020
You made it, my reading friend. Yours truly is very glad to, err, acknowledge you presence. Given that last week’s issue of our, oh, so fascinating blog / bulletin / thingee dealt with the potted history of the descendants of the Wright Bellanca WB-2 Columbia / Maple Leaf record breaking airplane, made by the American firm Bellanca Aircraft Corporation and by Canadian Vickers Limited of Montréal, Québec, in the 1920s and 1930s, and Northwest Industries Limited of Edmonton, Alberta, in the 1940s,
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Agriculture
Sciences
Space

3 things you should know — February edition

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Feb 4, 2020
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the February edition, our science advisors
Willie O'Ree
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Podcast
Sports & Gaming

NHL's Black History Month mobile museum in Ottawa

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Feb 4, 2020
Fans of the Ottawa Senators can take in a special exhibition honouring Black History Month before the puck drops at the Canadian Tire Centre on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
A Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker operated by Alaska Coastal Airlines, Incorporated, Juneau, Alaska. This floatplane is now on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario. Keith Petrich, “Bush Flying Is Dead.” Air Trails Pictorial, February 1945, 26.
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Aviation

So far away from home: The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Part 1

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Feb 3, 2020
You will have undoubtedly have noted, my, oh so observant reading friend, the presence of a few automobiles, microcars to be more precise, in recent issues of out blog / bulletin / thingee. It’s not that yours truly loves / likes automobiles. I was simply intrigued by the existence of these vehicles. This week, I would like to assume my wingnuttyness, for a change. Let us therefore look into the story of an airplane, and that of its designer, through a photograph found in the February 1945 issue
A typical New-Map / Rolux Baby microcar. Anon., “La voiturette ‘Baby VB-60’ à Québec au milieu de février.” L’Action catholique, 14 January 1950, 12.
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Road Transportation

The car that was more economical than the streetcar: The New-Map / Rolux Baby microcar

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Jan 27, 2020
How are you, my dear reading friend? Fear not, this kindness does not hide dark designs. Yours truly plans to be brief in his account of the microcar he discovered in the 14 January 1950 issue of the daily L’Action catholique of Québec, Québec, which is now gone. Where to start, where to start, where? Come, children of the personland, let us begin at the beginning. Once upon a time, there was a small French firm which produced New-Map motorcycles, and… Yes, yes, French and not American, British
A black-and-white photograph shows stone brick buildings on a riverbank.
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Collection Development

Blowing things up and knitting stockings: The enterprising DuPont company

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Jan 24, 2020
When it comes to the history of Canada’s industrial textile manufacturing sector, you would hardly expect to find an amazing story of innovation, explosions, and high fashion.
Charles Aznavour with the Beehoo / Magna Amphicat all-terrain vehicle he was examining, Montréal, Québec. His daughter Seda is near him. Suzanne Piuze, “Aznavour m’a dit…” La Patrie, 25 January 1970, 20.
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Aviation

I would love to own one; on my boat, that would be dandy: The off road journey of the Beehoo / Magna Amphicat

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Jan 23, 2020
As a greeting, my reading friend, I make you the solemn promise to be brief, at least for this week. Let us begin our peroration, dare I say (type?) pontification, with a visit to the second edition of the Salon (international?) de l’Auto, held at Place Bonaventure, in Montréal, Québec, from 15 to 25 January 1970. One of the many, many visitors at this event was none other than Charles Aznavour, born Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian. This world famous French author composer interpreter, actor and
Ingenium staff take a group “shelfie” in the new Ingenium Centre Library and Archives.
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Library and Archives

Ingenium celebrates Library Shelfie Day!

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Jan 22, 2020
Happy Library Shelfie Day! Founded in 2014 by the New York Public Library, Shelfie Day is celebrated on the fourth Wednesday of January each year. It’s a day for bibliophiles to pose and promote the things they love on social media, along with the hashtag: #LibraryShelfie! Below you’ll find some “shelfies” from our proud, library-loving Ingenium staff. These shelfies also serve as their reading recommendations — so be sure to come to our libraries to take a closer look at what’s on the shelves.